Kathy Garver
| Kathy Garver | |
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Garver at WonderCon 2009
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| Born |
Kathleen Marie Garver December 13, 1945 Long Beach, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Occupation | Actress, producer, author |
| Years active | 1955-present |
| Spouse(s) | David Travis (1981-present) |
| Website | Official website |
Kathleen Marie "Kathy" Garver (born December 13, 1945) is an American stage, film, television, and voice-over actress most remembered for having portrayed the teenage niece, Catherine "Cissy" Davis, to series character Uncle Bill Davis, played by Brian Keith, on the popular 1960s CBS sitcom, Family Affair. Before that, she was cast as a slave in the film The Ten Commandments (1956). Garver authored The Family Affair Cookbook (2009) and since 2008 has co-hosted the Comcast television talk show Backstage! With Barry & Kathy.
Garver was born in Long Beach, California, the daughter of Rosemary Schmoker and Hayes Gilbert Garver. She was raised Roman Catholic and attended a Catholic primary school. When she was nine, she tried her hand at acting and was cast in I'll Cry Tomorrow, but her most famous movie role was that of one of the young slaves in The Ten Commandments.
Between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s, the young actress worked with, in addition to her association with Brian Keith, such actors as Marvin Miller, Chuck Connors, Peter Graves, Scott Forbes, Dan O'Herlihy, Kurt Russell, Fess Parker, Vince Edwards, Richard Chamberlain, Patty Duke, Anne Lockhart, and James Franciscus.
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